Anyone's loss was due to listeria or another food borne bacteria?

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seyola86 wrote:

I lost my daughter due to listeriosis at 20 weeks. They say it is super rare and I got it from some food I ate that was contaminated with listeria. Something I ate somewhere, probably not home because noone else got sick.

Since this time I have really hard time dealing with food. Even bananas get washed and scrubbed with a brush. I almost completely stopped eating fresh produce because of how often it has listeria.I eat almost no dairy. Meat is so often contaminated with listeria and salmonella that I literally have to force it down my throat to eat it.

We are trying now for the second one, but I don't know how I will get thru a pregnancy with so many food restrictions I place on myself. Has anyone here had a loss due to an infection from food? How do you maintain healthy pregnancy if you don't trust the food you eat?

I am so sorry for your loss. I think it's natural to obsess about what you eat after what happened. However, I think it might help you to talk to a counselor. Restricting food while pregnant/ the constant stress will be really miserable.

I don't but my Aunt lost a little girl to listeria at 21 weeks. I'm so sorry, I can't imagine the pain you're feeling.

I'm in the middle of my 3rd consecutive miscarriage in 9 months currently, unexplained all the babies have been genetically normal, no issues with my uterus or cervix. Just devastating. You're in my thoughts xoxo